A solid win over a confident Jamaica on Sunday will boost the USA in the right direction.

Official word on Altidore: Strained left hamstring. Getting a MRI on Tuesday to find out the extent of the damage. (That means odds are likely that it is bad. Lets hope not.)-But no more on the severity yet.-Don't expect Altidore for the rest of the Gold Cup.

A Red Card was given to Jermaine Taylor of Jamaica. He wsa the last man back as the USA attacked and he brought down Jermaine Jones. On second viewing it looked like Jones was barely touched and made a scene of it. Sad but true. I loath divers.

Brian Straus of Sporting News talks to Sacha Kljestan about his time playing at Anderlecht and how he feels it has improved his game.

CONCACAF GOLD CUP

Matches & Scores:

CONCACAF has ruled that Mexico will be able to replace Christian Bermudez, Edgar Duenas, Antonio Sinha Naelson, Memo Ochoa and Francisco Rodriguez who were suspended due to a failed drug test after the first round of the group stage.-It will be interesting to see how their club teams deal with this.-The replacements are Paul Aguilar, Marco Fabian, Luis Michel, Hiram Mier and Hector Reynoso.

Blas Perez was shown a Red Card for Panama, and will not be available against the USA in the Semifinals.

Eric Lichaj: Kansas City has the best locker room of any team that I have seen... Unreal

DO YOU REALIZE

I was reading a lot of forums last night and this morning with USA fans renewing their hatred of Michael Bradley. And one of the most common themes I come across is "No matter how good or bad he plays his Daddy never ever subs him out of the games." And I could not help but laugh when I read this because he was just subbed out last Tuesday against Guadaloupe. Thats when I stop reading and move on.

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING

The New England Revolution ownership group took it upon themselves this past weekend to put a stop to fans who scream "You Suck Asshole" in unison every time the opponents goalkeeper take a free kick. They supposedly warned the fans via some emails etc, then sent the goon squad into the hardcore supporters sections to toss people out who said it during the game.

Sounds like a great way to communicate with the fans what you are trying to achieve with your marketing.

I went to the team's web page but could find nothing on this warning and any potential crackdown. I would think that the website would be one of several good places to promote the idea of banning this phrase from the stadium.

Or how about Twitter? I heard about some people helping fuel the overthrow of the Egyptian government using Twitter. That might be a way to help spread the word on chants you want to wipe out. I checked the team's Twitter account and found nothing before or after there either.

A power struggle between the Belize football federation and the Belize national government has caused FIFA to suspend the Belize national team from all official competition until the matter is resolved. They are currently in the first stage of World Cup qualifying.

CONCACAF 2014 WORLD CUP QUALIFYING

Preliminary Round

Can you believe qualifying has already begun?

Belize won its 1st Leg match.

The very first games of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying will be played as a 2 legged series.-Here are those 5 matchups between the 10 lowest rated teams in the region:

The 5 winners will advance to join the next 19 highest rated teams in a six, four team group stage.

ENGLAND

7 after hiring under-the-radar Porto manager Jose Mourinho to run their club, Chelsea has gone back to the same team in Portugal to try and hire Andre Villas Boas as their latest boss.

Alex McLeish who was fired by Birmingham after they were relegated has been hired as the new manager by their fierce rivals at Aston Villa.-Despite that controversy over hiring your enemy, he is a pretty uninspired hire.

ITALY

It looks like Inter head coach Leonardo is going to become the new technical director of Paris St Germain.-Who will replace him is the new big dollar question.

ARGENTINA

Tim Vickery of the BBC at the end of another Argentine season, tells about the retirement of Martin Palermo, tries to determine why everything at River Plate is going so wrong, and more.